The Great Filter

Posted byRichard Fernandez

My latest at the Belmont Club. Are there better and worse ways to live? Does it matter what the foundation stones of civilization are? How can we tell?

Belmont Club: On Rights and Wrongs
If ethics are entirely subjective, then any path chosen by a sentience will be no better or worse than another. Values would be orthogonal to outcomes in a universe that is indifferent to a choice of ends. We know the words: Anything goes. If it feels good, do it.